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rix

Sign if you think the biggest feature improvement to Orion
should be service/port monitoring ala WUG.

I personally think it would be incredible then.

Strength in numbers, make yourself heard.
maybe v7.5

Thanks,

-Network Janitor
(time to empty the bit bucket)

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ggroen

What i would like is SLA monitoring. A lot of people have SLA's on their networks. and it would be nice to have a feature that we can monitor uptimes, latency's etc.

It would also be nice if the network monitor would see on port and protocol level. and see how much bandwith is being used by kazaa or another application.

bdube

Service/port monitoring is a must in SME organizations.

After that:
- Device grouping is a near must, when you have some hundreds of nodes.

JohnM

If Orion goes down, you can still monitor ports/systems/services, and vice versa.

Using both's info helps in determining what kind of problems occur. However, our admins get thrown ungodly alerts when orion goes down, because Orion sends out alerts that it's down, then because that network section went down, it says that the services/ports went down, and everything on that server sends out an alert (7-12 alerts per occurence). So, having WUG/WUP combined with Orion may enable the ability of creating more cases of when alerts should be fired.

So, if we had these two functionalities combined, we could have it say:

1. If Network A is down, alert to fix Network A.
2. If Network A is down, and Services on Network A is down, do not alert.
3. If Services on Network A is down, alert to fix Network A.

Currently, when we run into #2 alerts for everything get shot out.

There might be something I can do to fix this with WUG, as I haven't looked into it a ton. I'm sure I could tie in a ping request to see if the network is down, or up, before producing an alert.

Outside of adding in WUG/WUP features, I'd like to see:

1. Having the ability to customize the Orion Website, which would mean having access to the .ASP files.

2. Access to the APIs' features in a very detail manner (Microsoft does a fairly good job of this in their online library)

3. More functionality to the report scheduler. Emailing and Printing are nice, but not as good as automaticly creating reports, exporting them as .html files, saving them into a directory, then having your webserver use that file as an update to a website. You may say, just let people view the reports via the "Reports" option that you can add to the Orion Website. Not a good thing. I can't have that many people querying the Orion SQL database to view a report. I just want snapshots to show daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports at... say 4 a.m.

Those are the things I'd like to see, so far.

Bandag - World Leader in Retread

BryanBecker

One frustrating thing with syslog is the auto-refresh of the messages. If you have a filter or your looking at some particular device the auto-refresh knocks all of that away and you have to set your filters up again. I know you can disable auo-refresh but its good for your node status. It would be nice to have a check-box or something to freeze the refresh of the syslog or a stop/start feature with syslog.

BB

Network_Guru

I agree with Bryan. Perhaps the filter can be setup to use a different .asp file which is not setup to auto-refresh?

Another hugely useful feature would be 'saved filters' in Custom Property Editor.
This would save creating the same filter everytime I open CPE to cutdown the node count from hundreds to a few dozen.

Of course editing the Custom Properties from the Node Details web page would be the ultimate solution!

-=Cheers=-
NG

gert

SNMP v3

Network_Guru

quote:Originally posted by gert

SNMP v3

That's definitely another must have!

Now with the SOX compliance requirements, everything must be encrytped.
Telnet > SSH, SNMP > SNMP V3.
What's next HTTP >HTTPS for the browser interface?

-=Cheers=-
NG

perduenoc

1. Netflow support
2. SNMP Trap support
3. Custom MIBs

mtevans

quote:Originally posted by perduenoc

1. Netflow support
2. SNMP Trap support
3. Custom MIBs

Totally 100 percent agree although I would trade #2 for #1 if prodded.

SLX Orion - Network Performance Monitor Version 7.7.10 Customer.

jneiberger

There is already a beta SNMP trap receiver available, if I remember correctly. Have you tried it?

chris.conway

quote:
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Originally posted by perduenoc

1. Netflow support
2. SNMP Trap support
3. Custom MIBs

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1. Has been discussed and will most likely be developed. NO ETA AT PRESENT
2. Available as a beta from additional components for customers with maintenance
3. Planned for V8 - 3/4 quarter this year

Also anyone who has asked for service/port monitoring similiar to WhatsUP - V8 again is the plan. It will be the Network Services module which you've probably seen as a menu item in the Orion System Manager.

Analyser Sales Ltd
SolarWinds Premier Partner
www.asl-solarwinds.co.uk

Josh_Stephens

If you are interested in NetFlow applications, please drop me an e-mail as I am looking for some early alpha/beta testers.

Thanks,
Josh Stephens
SolarWinds.Net
mailto:josh.stephens@solarwinds.net

seanbettencourt

How about an easy way to export solarwinds reports to say crystal reports? for n00bs like me who don't know crystal reports very well, it would be handy.

Mithrilhall

I would love to have the ability (easily) to create tooltips for the nodes on our maps (similar to the tooltips found on Netflix).

nigel.arnold

Port/service monitoring is a must.

rob.spiteri

Basic port/service monitoring is a must, and can't be that hard to do
my current organisation would happily go for Orion if the product did this, as it doesn't we'll have to maintain a propietary system for this or go with something OT like Openview. That or something pricey like Entuity.

Mithrilhall

Better Net-SNMP support -- needed badly.

netview

A feature that permits to assign different polling intervals for different groups of nodes would be nice to have...

BERMER Marc
Network & System Engineer

Arcelor Profil Luxembourg S.A.

brianburnett

First, I have to say great product, even in version 7! I cannot wait for version 8 to be released! Here are some things that we are looking for in Orion.

Jitter or RTT graphing/monitoring (Specially necessary with VoIP quality metrics.
Cisco NetFlow Monitoring to get IP-based detail and application stats.
Custom OID Statistics Polling for other sundry SNMP variables

Can anyone tell me if these are likely to be included in version 8, or perhaps when I might expect these? Sincerely, Brian E. Burnett EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY WWIS - Global Telecommunications Office: (585) 722-3753 Pager: (585) 253-8332

Don331

My favorite feature is that when you call Solarwinds, a human always answers the phone. I hope they keep that in version 8.

Don Barry
Aegis Mortgage Corp
Houston, TX

jhhaley

Ability to monitor traffic across VPN tunnels and I echo everything else stated. While I realize the primary focus of Orion is not application monitoring, it has been a super enchancement.

iunderwo

I'm generally pleased with SQL 2005, but all the DBAs where I work are more familiar with Oracle and Postgres, though I tend to prefer MySQL myself. However, having said that, I know how much of a monumental task such a change would be, especially since the SQL syntax varies between DBs. Database independence would be very nice, but probably just a pipe dream.

I have not yet tried the new alert engine, but on un-resettable alerts, there needs to be some kind of arbitrary reset trigger. For example, I'd love to get a reboot alert, but they don't clear on their own. I really, really think we should be able to have those alerts reset after a certain amount of uptime (e.g. 30 minutes). Due to the critical nature of the monitoring here, I can't shut down the alerting engine to clear out something which should be clearable, or can reset itself all on its own.

// Ian Underwood - Network Engineering
// Boston Stock Exchange

mfinnigan

Ian Underwood - how do you get alerts from reboots in the new alerting engine? I thought it was something that couldn't be done.

My thought on the automatic reset would be to take some condition that will always be true, like "last boot time is greater than jan 1 1970", make that the reset condition after a 5-minute wait.

iunderwo

I haven't tried the new alerting engine yet, because I running the latest on an old development box. (New HW is on the way for out SW upgrade, though.)

The feature request was directed to the old alerting engine. There are a couple of other conditions too which don't have resets in their alerts either, but there needs to be a way to make them disappear without toggling alerts off then on.

// Ian Underwood - Network Engineering
// Boston Stock Exchange

cgreen

Custom MIB(s) for temperature monitoring, we use Jacarta Interseptor units in comms rooms to monitor temp and humidity, we can monitor the unit to see the ethernet port but thats about it, would be great to see temp/humidity readings/stats for these units.

mbaskett

Custom MIB support
Custom MIB support
Custom MIB support
Custom MIB support
Custom MIB support

We use Netscreen devices in all our locations, and the ability to monitor the VPN tunnel status via SNMP would be extremely useful, not to mention the basics like CPU and RAM usage.. Can't do that now

Also, we have alot of off-brand equipment in circulation (mostly due to mergers) and there's little I am able to monitor since I can't load any device specific MIBs.

jeanmariemetz

Audible alarming is available already. Tech support can help you implement if you need help. WHen configuring an alert, and adding the action to be taken, playing a sound file is one of the choices.

quote:Originally posted by ckore

1. Trap Mapping
2. Audible Alarms

iunderwo

On this topic, I think it would be great if there were some API that could be released for additional packs. The application and wireless packs show that it can be done. However, I think more rapid development could be attained if some other programmers could hop in and contribute plugins to the product.

If there were an API of sorts available, then the expansions that people have been requesting here (Nortel, environmental monitoring, etc.) could be developed outside the main application. Having said that, this might be part of the evolution we've been seeing in the 7.x branch.

I've eagerly awaiting the release of 8.

// Ian Underwood - Network Engineering
// Boston Stock Exchange

Josh_Stephens

For all of you interested in monitoring custom MIBs, we are working on some of the pieces for this now and we need your input. If you're interested in becoming a part of a working group/beta testing group please contact me directly. Thanks, Josh Stephens SolarWinds.Net josh@solarwinds.net

geoffinva3

Coming from a 30 year background in Event/Alarm management Management (Netcool, CA, Openview, Smarts, etc......) a very good area for the Solarwinds

company to improve upon would be the Operator interface for alarm,trap, event management. At my present location Openview remains due to the shortcoming of

Solarwinds as it pertains to these areas.

Phase 1 would be to improve the ability to manipulate the alarms, events, traps and why not syslog too:

Suggestion:

Event and alerts list requirements:

Note: The requirements listed below are for both the Orion alert and event lists.

ø Acknowledge, deacknowledge, prioritize, delete, and resolve one or more selected events or alerts.

ø Assign ownership to one or more selected events or alerts

ø Search the event or alert list for specific events

ø Apply filters and views

ø Acknowledging and deacknowledging events

The ability to acknowledge and deacknowledge events or alerts in the list only if you have permission to do so. Based on Operation creditials and roles assigned.

ø Prioritizing events

The ability to prioritize events in the event list by changing the event severity, escalating or de-escalating the event, suppressing the event, hiding the event, and indicating that the event is "in maintenance".

ø Assigning ownership to events

When an event or alert is received , the event or alert is owned by the user “system” unless ownership of the event has been assigned to a specific user. Users with appropriate privileges can take ownership of the alert or event throughout the problem lifecycle, or assign events to a specific user or group.

ø Refreshing an event list

The event list refreshes automatically at regular intervals to show all incoming alerts. We require the option to refresh just the event or alert resource independent of the entire Orion Web Refresh. The option is needed to choose to refresh the event list between the configured intervals to view all the latest alerts

at the current point in time.

ø Resolving events or alerts

From the event or alert list, you can display a list of known resolutions, which are determined by the class of the event or alert.

ø Deleting events

We need the ability to delete an event and only if you have permission to do so.

ø Adding events to a task list

The ability to add events or alerts to a task list to identify events that require special attention.

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Traps/Mibs -etc the ability to load mib trap definitions automatically and than massage them. This is probably the only NNM tool that I like.

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Phase Two:

Event Coorelations - simple at first deduplication

and than we can take it further.......

Geoff

FormerMember

geoffinva3

You're posting on a really old thread. The first post was from 2003 and the last post before yours was 2006. We have released quite a few times since then, and most of what's requested in this very long thread has been delivered.

I'm also wondering what version of NPM you're using because v9.5 can do quite a bit of what you're asking for here. We replace hp all the time. Have you tried v9.5?

geoffinva3

Denny,

I am running the latest version! Most of what I have stated has not been delivered. In fact we had Solarwinds enginnering and sales visit the Veterans Affairs Departmnet back in Januarary 2009. As a followup to the meeting tey requested I put together the requirements for an advanced alarm browser which I did. We have not heard any response since that email thread. I will be gal to foward it to you.

Geoff - 304-262-5229 I invite you to call me to discuss my points in this thread.

Thanks

Geoffrey.chambers@va.gov